2 April 2022

23 links · Saturday

Amazon Principal Engineering Community

Amazon’s Principal Engineer Community sets the standard for engineering excellence at Amazon.  The community comprises Principal, Senior Principal, and Distinguished Engineers who are responsible for driving Amazon’s overall technical architecture. Principal E…

A database for 2022

Hi, it’s us again, the ones who used to store our database in a single JSON file on disk, and then moved to etcd. Time for another change! We’re going to put everything in a single file on disk again.

RFC 9225: Software Defects Considered Harmful

This document discourages the practice of introducing software defects in general and in network protocol implementations specifically. Software defects are one of the largest cost drivers for the networking industry. This document is intended…

How I Sold My Newsletter: Andrew Kamphey - Paved Blog

Andrew Kamphey is an entrepreneur and content creator who’s launched a variety of projects, from web apps to online courses. He founded and later sold Influence Weekly, a newsletter aimed at curating influencer marketing research and analyzing the influencer m…

Lessons learned with Elm | 20Y

I’ve been working with Elm for more than a year now. I’m was new to the language and to staticly typed functional programming too. I come from a PHP, Emacs Lisp, Python, JavaScript background. Hereby I’m collecting my insights and the lessons I’ve learned alon…

Transformers for software engineers - Made of Bugs

Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model architecture has taken the deep-learning world by storm. Initially introduced for machine translation, it has become the tool of choice for a wide range of domains,…

The Reminder Trick · Jens Oliver Meiert

This tool is so powerful and at the same time so trivial to make a routine that I ask everyone who regularly employs it to transcend their disappointment—I’m mentioning it for the people I meet who don’t use it.

The Free Automatic Diary – DeUmbra

Our thoughts are our experience in this world, and our worries, memories, and plans are the only real testimony to our existence. Moment by moment, it feels like we are thinking about what’s naturally important, but in reality we each focus only on a minuscule…

A year of README reviews

A year ago I published an offer to review the README of free and open source projects. I didn’t expect much interest, but someone posted the link to Hacker News, and I got enough requests that it was a little overwhelming. I’ve now reviewed 196 READMEs, my que…

I ❤️ Microscopes • Hillel Wayne

To celebrate April Fools, some friends and I made content outside our normal brands. You can see the full list of pieces here! Also, CW: grody gross-up pictures of bugs. I’ve always loved science. At one time, I thought it’d be my career: I got BAs in math and…

Total Functions and Partial Functions

Given a function and an input for which that function is defined, does the function return an answer? Functions that always return answers are called total, and functions that don’t are called partial.